Hacker News: nicksaroha

New comment by nicksaroha in "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"

nicksaroha — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:01:32 +0000

Yeah! Streaming is crucial for any real time use.

New comment by nicksaroha in "Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing?"

nicksaroha — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:41:01 +0000

Yeah read the full article and no mention of flock.

New comment by nicksaroha in "Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date"

nicksaroha — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:20:05 +0000

Learned something new. Cool stuff. Thanks for the website.

New comment by nicksaroha in "Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale"

nicksaroha — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:17:20 +0000

Wouldn’t it be a huge overkill to run your own temporal or airflow instances just to run your cron jobs? Just curious.

New comment by nicksaroha in "Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet"

nicksaroha — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:27:54 +0000

One use-case comes to mind is messaging for activists and journalists wanting to keep things private.

How would this compare to https://briarproject.org/ ? Have you generalized their protocol for many other applications?

New comment by nicksaroha in "I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app"

nicksaroha — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:52:39 +0000

Outlook makes sense because they use React Native in their app. If you look at their License sections they are using a ton of libraries which is common.